Our Solaris group here is using ORCA to collect various performance metrics about their servers.
However, the ORCA data collection is somewhat fickle, and it is annoying to have two systems tracking data. So the question was: Can Hobbit be used to collect these data instead ?
I've had a look at ORCA, and it does seem like it would be possible to just use the ORCA data collector (orcallator.se) and feed those data into Hobbit. A special back-end module could then process these into RRD files, and graph them with hobbitgraph. This would be rather trivial to do - most of the work would be to setup the hobbitgraph definitions to match those graphs currently available in ORCA.
But before I do that - how many people are actually using ORCA? Their website appears to be on-line, but no updates have appeared for a couple of years.
Regards, Henrik
That would be great. We have plans to move ORCA to a new server in the next month.
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
Our Solaris group here is using ORCA to collect various performance metrics about their servers.
However, the ORCA data collection is somewhat fickle, and it is annoying to have two systems tracking data. So the question was: Can Hobbit be used to collect these data instead ?
I've had a look at ORCA, and it does seem like it would be possible to just use the ORCA data collector (orcallator.se) and feed those data into Hobbit. A special back-end module could then process these into RRD files, and graph them with hobbitgraph. This would be rather trivial to do - most of the work would be to setup the hobbitgraph definitions to match those graphs currently available in ORCA.
But before I do that - how many people are actually using ORCA? Their website appears to be on-line, but no updates have appeared for a couple of years.
Regards, Henrik
Hello
We use ORCA. It was build up here 3 years ago by a external worker. He build a php menu in that we can select hosts and graphs, selecting 2 or more hosts then its possible to compare the hosts. Most clients are Solaris machines (Orcaserver runs on Solaris), also some HP-Unix and Linux machines are in ORCA.
Yes it seems there are no update made for orca. Also a problem is that richpse/SEToolkit devlopment is stopped. We have problems with Orca (richpse) when Sun change the names of the network controllers. In the mailinglist is still some activity http://www.orcaware.com/pipermail/orca-users/
I think its a good idea to get this 2 parts together.
Regards Roland
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Juni 2006 15:27 An: hobbit at hswn.dk Betreff: [hobbit] Hobbit tracking of data from ORCA
Our Solaris group here is using ORCA to collect various performance metrics about their servers.
However, the ORCA data collection is somewhat fickle, and it is annoying to have two systems tracking data. So the question was: Can Hobbit be used to collect these data instead ?
I've had a look at ORCA, and it does seem like it would be possible to just use the ORCA data collector (orcallator.se) and feed those data into Hobbit. A special back-end module could then process these into RRD files, and graph them with hobbitgraph. This would be rather trivial to do - most of the work would be to setup the hobbitgraph definitions to match those graphs currently available in ORCA.
But before I do that - how many people are actually using ORCA? Their website appears to be on-line, but no updates have appeared for a couple of years.
Regards, Henrik
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On 6/20/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
Our Solaris group here is using ORCA to collect various performance metrics about their servers.
However, the ORCA data collection is somewhat fickle, and it is annoying to have two systems tracking data. So the question was: Can Hobbit be used to collect these data instead ?
I've had a look at ORCA, and it does seem like it would be possible to just use the ORCA data collector (orcallator.se) and feed those data into Hobbit. A special back-end module could then process these into RRD files, and graph them with hobbitgraph. This would be rather trivial to do - most of the work would be to setup the hobbitgraph definitions to match those graphs currently available in ORCA.
But before I do that - how many people are actually using ORCA?
I would love to see ORCA get integrated with hobbit since we are mostly a Solaris shop. I was as a matter of fact going thru the ORCA setup written by Amy Rich on bigadmin site for Solaris. Here is the url:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/orca.html
Their website appears to be on-line, but no updates have appeared
for a couple of years.
Regards, Henrik
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